Skolstrejk för klimatetat #ClimateStrike - With Wildfires Focusing Our Attention on How Very Real Climate Change IS... Now Would be a Great Time to Take Action... For Example: Drive Cars Less... a LOT LESS! The Burning of Fossil Fuel is Universally Acknowledged to Cause Climate Change.

Before You Start The Car, ask... Is this Journey REALLY NEEDED? With the Price of Gasoline So Very High... Millions of People are Simply Leaving The Damn Thing Parked!

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and Yet... It appears that the Vast Majority of people in the USA have NOT Connected the Dots... This past Thanksgiving, Record numbers of Travelers Filled the Airports... Flying on Optional Trips to Visit Family... and ALL were Spewing Vast Quantities of Air Pollution from those Jet Airplanes... and NONE seemed Concerned About CAUSING Climate Change by Their Actions...
An Alternative to Jet Airplane Travel to Visit Family is Using Zoom on the Computer... There is Zero Air Pollution in a Picture Phone Call...



The Climate IS CHANGING. Soon California will become more like Arizona... all the trees will burn and we'll replace them with cactus... the Climate of Tijuana will move North and soon Oregon will be Like Baja... The Only Solution is for everyone to Keep Moving North... and that works great until we all live on the North Pole... a warm sunny place... then where do we go?


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SO... What Can We Do? Protest Online Using "digital strikes" Worldwide ECO-ACTION! - Greta Thunberg says: “We Are Striking to Disrupt the System”


Every Friday there is a Friday's for the Future Event... and With the World's Attention focused on Kentucky Tornadoes Is a Great Time to Make a Joyful Noise!

Greta Thunberg

@GretaThunberg
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“As citizens across the planet, we urge you to face up to the climate emergency. Not next year. Not next month. Now” Join me and activists all over the world and demand leaders to face the climate crisis at #COP26
https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg



https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/climate_action_now_loc/ <--- Sign this Climate Action Petition

Important Movie: I Am Greta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDdEWkA15Rg

I Am Greta is a 2020 internationally co-produced documentary film directed by Nathan Grossman, following climate change activist Greta Thunberg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Greta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg

Greta Thunberg calls for digital strikes amid coronavirus fears. She has urged fellow climate campaigners to avoid mass protests and listen to local authorities.
https://www.dw.com/en/greta-thunberg-calls-for-digital-strikes-amid-coronavirus-fears/a-52732530

Link to an Interview on The Democracy Now! TV News Show with Amy Goodman...
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/11/greta_thunberg_swedish_activist_climate_crisis

"Make America Greta Again" - Climate Change is Real and Caused By Human Behavior... Here are Some Simple Things We Can Do To Help Prevent Disaster.

Drive Cars Less. WAY Less... The Next Time You Change Jobs, Select a Location NEAR HOME to Reduce Time and Money Wasted Commuting to Work... I was Lucky Enough to Be Able to Ride the Bus to Work in Both Eureka and San Jose, California... It was a LOT of Fun Chatting with the Other Bus Riders... Especially the Beautiful Women... You Can't Do THAT is a Car...

Stop Flying in Jet Airplanes. Is There REALLY a Need to FLY? Where are You Going that Couldn't Be Done Using a Picture Phone??? Do Your Business Meetings Online... and Try Your Next Vacation Near Home... Maybe Camping in the Sierras??? Or Hiking the Appalachian Trail???

Eat Fewer Hamburgers... A LOT of Global Warming is Caused by Cows... Maybe Those Meat Alternative are worth Checking Out? OR... Maybe Just Enjoy those Ancient Meals Like a Falafel? Middle Eastern Pocket Bread, Ground Garbanzo Bean Mash Deep Fat Fried, Lettuce, Onions, Tomatoes and INSANELY HOT SAUCE!

Stop buying New Clothes... Every Time You Buy New, a Corporation Collects Raw Materials, Employs Slaves in Asia to Make the Garment and Ships them By Boat Half Way Around the World and then Drives Them in Trucks to You... Why Not Just Go to Your Local Thrift Store and Buy Recycled Clothes? Our Thrift Store is a Benefit for the Eureka Homeless Shelter. Employing Homeless People and Paying for the Rescue Mission's Food and Rent Bills from their Profits. We Bought a Couch, two chairs, a Piano and Countless Books there... It Wonderful! and they Deliver!

Climate Change is Real and We All ought to DO SOMETHING... I don't own a Car... Rarely do I travel... except that I walk all over the place... every day... I use UBER when I need to go a longer distance... and... STOPPED FLYING IN JET AIRPLANES Totally!


American History: What Happened in 2019...

DC CLIMATE STRIKE – SHUT DOWN BUSINESS-AS-USUAL... Youth leaders from around the world have called for a climate strike and global week of action from September 20th-27th. They have been taking the lead so far, but now they are calling on all of us to take action. In Washington, DC we will be answering the call and building on the momentum of the youth climate strikes in a major way:

On September 23rd,
We are going to Shut Down Washington, DC.

We will block key infrastructure to stop business-as-usual, bringing the whole city to a gridlocked standstill. Parents, workers, college students, and everyone who is concerned about the climate crisis will skip work and school and put off their other responsibilities to take action on the climate crisis.
https://www.strikedc.org/



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Fridays for future. The school strike continues! #climatestrike #klimatstrejk #FridaysForFuture https://twitter.com/i/status/1041369960436703232

https://www.facebook.com/gretathunbergsweden/





Global Climate Strike 9/20
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Remember: There are Two Ways to Get
Everything You Want.
Get More or Want Less!

What are the climate strikes—and how did they get started? In August 2018, then-15-year-old Greta Thunberg began skipping school every day to protest in front of Sweden’s parliament in the weeks before the Swedish general election. She demanded climate legislation that would bring Sweden in line with the Paris Agreement (keeping global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels). After the election, Thunberg continued to skip school to strike on Fridays, inspiring thousands of young people worldwide to follow suit. Since Thunberg’s Friday strikes, youth around the world have protested in front of their local legislatures on Fridays in solidarity, beginning the #FridaysForFuture movement. In a culmination of all their efforts, strikers from 117 countries are calling for massive global climate action, by everyone, on September 20th and again on September 27th—a full week of concentrated action that the strikers are calling the #WeekForFuture movement. https://www.chatelaine.com/living/global-climate-strike-canada-2019/ Greta Thunberg To U.S.: 'You Have A Moral Responsibility' On Climate Change. She says her message for President Trump is the same thing she tells other politicians: Listen to science, and take responsibility. https://www.npr.org/2019/09/13/760538254/greta-thunberg-to-u-s-you-have-a-moral-responsibility-on-climate-change Tumblr, Kickstarter, WordPress, and BitTorrent are among the companies to support the Global Climate Strike by donating ad space or shutting down their websites The youth-led global climate strike scheduled for next Friday has already secured a number of corporate backers, and now the campaign is going online. A number of the world's most popular and influential websites announced this week that they will help to promote the strike, pledging to spread the word on social media, put banners on their websites to signal support for the strikes, and in some cases shut down their operations. https://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/3081528/websites-join-climate-strike Why People Worldwide Will Be Walking Off The Job Later This Month. The Global Climate Strike hopes to draw attention to the worsening climate crisis. https://www.chatelaine.com/living/global-climate-strike-canada-2019/ 1,000 Amazon Employees Are Joining Global Climate Strike.
https://www.ecowatch.com/global-climate-strike-amazon-employees-2640285733.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

Music Video: The Lock Him Up and Throw Away The Key Blues (tRUMP's a Danger to Self and Others... Police Code 5150...) http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/06/music-video-lock-him-up-and-throw-away.html

Music Video: Butterfly Freedom - Did You Ever Notice... Reality? It's Right Outside Your Door... Take a Walk in the Woods... Unplug... and Experience Nature... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/06/music-video-butterfly-freedom-chords.html

HOW TO Join the Global #DumpTrump Movement. Anyone, Anywhere in the World May Write to US Senators and House Representatives Using Their Online Contact Forms. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/05/join-global-dumptrump-movement-anyone.html

Let's Cut The Police Force in Half. How to Contact Your Senators and Representatives. Fewer Police = More Safety. Police Need MORE TRAINING About How to STOP MURDERING UNARMED CITIZENS https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/06/lets-cut-police-force-in-half-how-to.html

Absentee Ballots [vote by mail] are one way to make sure YOU CAN VOTE AT ALL. Republicans are putting a LOT of effort in preventing people from voting. Especially Black and Brown people. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/06/absentee-ballots-vote-by-mail-are-one.html

If tRUMP Wins, He Will CAUSE Global Economic Collapse. Billions of People Will Die of Starvation. Remember That #TrumpHasFailed When You Vote. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/06/if-trump-wins-he-will-cause-global.html

Millions of Republicans #RUNAWAY from tRUMP... Everyone Has Realized... He's a Pile of _______ ! (Redacted - Community Standards) Did You Ever Notice That Republicriminals are trying to Destroy Democracy by Preventing People from Voting... Then, They Can Crown CZAR Donald Glorious Leader For Life! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/06/millions-of-republicans-runaway-from_10.html

tRUMP IS INSANE! A Call for Invoking the 25th Amendment. When He Causes Global Economic Collapse, Billions Will Die From Starvation. #LockHimUP in a Mental Hospital... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/06/trump-is-insane-call-for-invoking-25th.html

Jaime Harrison is Running for Senator against Evil Lindsey Graham in South Carolina. Jaime is Young and Smart, Lindsey is Old and Corrupt. Join the Campaign to throw the Insane TrumpNiks OUT! Register and Vote! 2020 is the Year we Win the Senate, The House and The Presidency! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/05/jaime-harrison-is-running-for-senator.html

Proof of tRUMP's Failed Economy... Obama Did Not Need Food Banks... People Bought Food With Paychecks From Jobs. Remember: You Can't Eat tRUMP's Lies! #DumpTrump #BillionDollarLoser #tRUMPisaFAILURE https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/05/proof-of-trumps-failed-economy-obama.html

Music Video "Vote for Joe, He's Not Insane!" CAMPAIGN SONG - Chords and Lyrics Provided So You Can Record This and Make a Hit Record! https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/06/music-video-vote-for-joe-hes-not-insane.html


State of Jefferson and Washington DC
Added - Texas and Florida GTFO!
- New map of the USA

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Will Republicans Cause Global Economic Collapse this Summer? If the US Government Defaults on the National Debt THAT WILL Cause the End of Civilization. Billions of People Will Starve to Death...

The summer of 2011 in Washington, D.C., was scorching hot. Republicans had taken control of the House of Representatives that January and their No. 1 priority was to rein in spending after the federal debt hit a record. They demanded that the Democratic president work with them to stop the federal government’s “money printing.” 
Looks like the summer of 2023 will sizzle with the same kind of heat. House Republicans are again newly in the majority and are determined to reach an agreement with a Democratic president to reduce spending before they vote to raise the federal borrowing limit. Doomsday scenarios abound now as they did then. The predicament, in fact, is very similar, except the record amount of debt is nearly double what it was a dozen years ago, making the situation more dire. Thanks to Trump's Tax Cut for the Rich Law.

https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2023/02/28/inching_away_from_debt_ceiling_calamity_884392.html

What to do? 
In the short-term, defaulting on the national debt would be disastrous. The most-recent debt-ceiling battle led to a downgrade of U.S. government-issued securities. A default would be even worse. As interest rates and the prospect of a recession rise, a missed coupon payment on U.S. Treasury securities would be catastrophic and set the stage for a global attempt to find alternatives to the U.S. dollar as the main form of currency for international trade.

Larisa's Shakti Love Warriors Group

Larisa Stow & Shakti Tribe  

I was inspired by the great peacemakers and leaders to create Six Global Agreements, agreements that help us ground and anchor the WEvolution, our mutual evolution, rooted in heart-centered awareness. The WEvolution calls for us to link hands and hearts with each other to heal ourselves and the world around us.

How can we create a world that reflects compassion and love? How do we bring heaven, that we perceive is somewhere out there, into our own bodies and into this life? How can we collaborate in heart-centered awareness rather than ego centered consciousness? And what can we do right now to collectively create our highest vision and version of heaven on Earth?

I invite you to join me in working with these 6 Global Agreements of the WEvolution, a simple formula, a practice, designed to lead humanity out of our global shadow, by guiding us inward, into our heart, into the sacred WE Space.

Journey to the Center of the Mind:

Amboy Dukes... Ted Nugent

E, E, E, F, F#, G, G, G, F#,F (repeat 3x)

Leave your cares behind, come with us and find, (E)
the pleasures of a journey to the center of the mind (D,E)
Come along if you care (A, C, C, B, Bd, A)

come along if you dare (A, C, C, B, Bd, A)
Take a ride to the land inside of your mind. (C, B7)
Beyond the seas of thought, beyond the realm of what (E)
across the streams of hopes and dreams where things are really Hot. (D, E)
Come along if you care (A, C, C, B, Bd, A)

come along if you dare (A, C, C, B, Bd, A)
Take a ride to the land inside of your mind (C, B7)
But please realize you'll probably be surprised, (E, D)

for it's the land unknown to man where fantasy is fact. (E, D)

So, if you can, please understand, (E, D)

you might not come back... (E, D)
Come along if you care (A, C, C, B, Bd, A)

come along if you dare (A, C, C, B, Bd, A)

Take a ride to the land inside, and you'll see (C,B7)
How happy life could be, if all of mankind, (E, D)
would take the time to journey to the center of the mind (E, D)

would take the time to journey to the center of the mind (E, D)

"Let's Build the Space Mirror and Fix Global Warming." Click Here to Read More About NASA Project Starshade.

Could Space Mirrors Stop Global Warming?

https://www.livescience.com/22202-space-mirrors-global-warming.html

The Basic Idea Was Written by Arthur C. Clarke  

in his Book SUNSTORM. 

Dimming the sun to cool the planet is a desperate idea, yet we're inching toward it. The scientists who study solar geoengineering don't want anyone to try it. But climate inaction is making it more likely.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/dimming-the-sun-to-cool-the-planet-is-a-desperate-idea-yet-were-inching-toward-it

Scientists Increasingly Calling to Dim the Sun
It's no longer science fiction.

https://futurism.com/scientists-calling-dim-sun-geoengineering

By Placing a Starshade over California in the Summer we could reduce the temperature below... Extreme heat is causing wildfires in The Western USA EVERY SUMMER...

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-seeks-public-s-designs-to-throw-shade-in-space

Starshade

Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is developing a giant shade which could help in the search for life on planets outside our Solar System (exoplanets). Earth-like planets orbiting a star are about 10 billion times fainter than a star making it very difficult to see, but a Starshade flown between a space telescope and a star could precisely block out a star’s light and reveal any planets. The exoplanets could then be analyzed for signs of life. The shade will be too big to fit in a rocket, but Nasa has developed a way of folding it before it is transported and unfurling it once it is in space. JPL has developed the first and single realistic scientific simulations for the starshade. Visit sister.caltech.edu for more details.

https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/projects/starshade/

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Exorcism at the US Capitol 1/3/2023. Surround the Building and Blow Whistles, Beat Drums, Dance, Chant. Burn Sage and Welcome the GOP House Members... 
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/12/exorcism-at-mar-loser.html

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Ezekiel's Wheel is An interesting Story in the Bible... Read IT! - Alien Abduction? UFO? Ergot Poisoning? Mushroom Visions? So Many Questions... Ezekiel Says He Saw a Four Headed Beast... With The Head of a Man, a Lion, An Ox and an Eagle... and then He went for a Ride in a Spaceship!

Lyrics to “Space Hymn” by Lothar and the Hand People: Automatically Entrances the Listener.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gqnu__c8vk&t=11s

(spoken) Now, sit in a comfortable position. Close your eyes and listen very closely to the sound of my voice. Imagine that there is nothing but you and the sound. Floating freely high above the Earth. Now, as you listen you will begin to relax. Every sound you hear relaxes you further. Just you and the sound. Your arms and legs feel heavy. Very heavy. Like lead. Every sound takes you deeper and deeper. Nothing can disturb you. Every muscle, every part of your body is relaxing further and further as you drift down deeper and deeper. You are floating away from the sound of my voice but you can still hear it. Imagine you are riding down an escalator. Slowly going down farther and farther into deep relaxation. Feels so good. Now, I’m going to count backwards from five to zero and on every number you will go another level deeper. Relaxing more completely on every count until I reach zero. On zero you go twice as deep. Backwards from five to zero. Deeper on every count and on zero, twice as deep. Five, so relaxed. Four… Three… Two… down, down, One… Zero… way, way down. Imagine you are floating high above the Earth in deep space looking out on the universe. Floating free in Space. Uplifted and filled with a silent “Ahh” watching the movement of the stars.

(sung) Standing on the Moon, filled with thoughts of home, Earth so slowly turning, twenty thousand years, human hopes and fears, are we finally learning? Riders together on a Starship of stone, living together, trying together, dying alone. La La, La La La…

'Steal Your Smiley Face' Text Art (~);-} emoji - Grateful Dead Logo - Dancing in Arcata to the Absynth Quintet - The Plaza

Feel Free to PIRATE and image you see here.
Thanks to Owsley and Bob Thomas for the Grateful Dead Logo

Visual Echoplex

Potatoshop Silliness
Automatically Stretches Our Minds.

He's Gone...

Analog Synthesizer Tips and Tricks. Electrical Engineering FUNdamentals... 

all about SOLARWIND… Our Musical Group.
I was fascinated with playing electronic music and played with my friends (Ken, Mark and Leon) in Ken’s basement for 5 years on the weekends. I also had a setup in my living room and would invite guests. This was at the time of analog synths and the beginning of midi. My favorite instrument was the Korg Polysix… It had the ability to make those really astonishing outer space sounds… Modulated resonant filter sweeping… like Steve Miller, Edgar Winter or Doctor Who… The pitch of the note could be defined by the control voltage input on the rear panel… well, I had a Radio Shack “100 in One experimenters kit” and a bag of capacitors, resistors and light emitting diodes that I hooked up to generate an oscillating circuit… Absolutely no one else on the planet was making the noises that I made… similar, true, but my noises were unique… Since it was created using wires and SPRING CLIPS to connect the components, the resistance of each connection varied according to stress on the wires… for example: if I blew at the circuit, the music would change due to the pressure of the wind…

Leon had a black box that allowed me to sing or talk into the synthesizer and the volume of my voice determined the sound of the synth… You can hear this particular technique on THE DOORS- STRANGE DAYS… Listen carefully and when Jim Morrison sings the words “Strange Days have found us…etc” there are squiggly noises that follow along with the vocals… (amplitude to control voltage converter, also pitch to control voltage)
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I also had a display of 18 strands of christmas tree lights that would blink on and off… they were hung in the corner of the room with a mylar mirror on each wall… That provided enough light to be able to see the controls and keys on the keyboards… Each strand of lights would be either on or off and they all had different timing cycles… this made the whole display appear to experience waves of rainbow colors… The keyboards were all interconnected to allow waves of sound to evolve over time as the modulated filters ebbed with tidal forces…
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Fun, but all those analog synths are hard to find anymore… they were replaced with digital ones that were cheaper to produce and more reliable… somehow there was a move towards realistic instrument sounds instead of outer space whoosh whoosh… too bad…
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I remember Emerson, Lake and Palmer in concert at the Winterland in San Francisco… Keith jumped off the stage and wandered around the dance floor “zapping” people with a ribbon controller that was making “ray-gun” sounds… A good example of the ribbon controller was on “Good Vibrations” by the Beach Boys… the part that goes oooWWWWEEEwooowooo… ooooWWWWEEEwooowooo…
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Another beautiful synth was bought used at a yard sale for 75 dollars. It was a minikorg and had been thru severe abuse on the road. This marvel is most famous as the lead voice on Kitaro records… the breathy flute sound that he uses to play melody parts… The theme to Silk Road, etc… This was a monophonic synth that had ring modulator effects and white noise… this also had a switch for setting the pitch to an extremely low tone… as if you were playing notes on a piano that were way off the end of the left hand… this machine allowed me to create what I called the “Dawn of Time” sound… A growling bass note that needed about 10 seconds to play… A ring modulator lets each key have its own vibrato rate… for example” “C” might have a wow wow wow sound that shanged every half a second while “C#” would have a wow wow wow that changed 42 times a second… “D would be 6 times a second etc… this tonal quality creates many of the more avant garde (or teeth gratingly irritating) sounds of extremely early synth recordings…
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I also became fascinated by the possibilities of echo and computer controlled music. Lucky for me, instruments started being built with a MIDI interface… this caused older instruments to go on sale at extremely cheap prices…
The Roland microcomposer was 8 1/2 by 11 inches and had a microcomputer in it. I stored sequences of pitches and durations of notes using the tiny keyboard… really, really tiny… It was designed to drive two SH101 Roland synths and could play two notes simultaneously… what a breakthrough… from ONE NOTE at a time to two… By typing in a series of bass notes each with a duration of 1/8 of a bar… and then running it thru an echo box that had a time set to 3/16th of a bar… and setting the voltage controlled filter so that some notes were silent, some notes were muted and some notes were loud… I was able to trick the system into composing by itself a never repeating bassline that was fun to improvise over… the computer selected which notes to play and when… cosmic…
This worked well for music that is called MODAL… In that style, there are no chord changes at all… the performers select a handfull of notes as the scale and just go to it… the most famous modal piece is “The Old Washer Woman” and The theme performed by Edith Bunker on the television show “All in the Family”… The music is played entirely on the BLACK NOTES of the piano… I think they called it “Those Were The Days”… “Didn’t need no welfare state, everybody pulled his weight, gee those old La Salles ran great… THOSE were the DAAAAAYYYYSSSS…. It is an extremely simple song. So simple that I was able to teach a computer to play in that style… Of course, my compositions were not at all like that whiny song… more robotoc and like German Technopop…
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Music nonstop, technopop… Bleep, blonk… tchatchink…
I was fortunate to have read an article in the Washington Post about the upcoming Kraftwerk concert so I went out and bought the recommended album Autobahn and liked it… The basic style of music sounded interesting and so, I went to the beautiful Warner Theatre to see them. This was an elegant performance space that started out as an ART DECO theatre and then became a dance hall for rock music… oh how lucky we were… This was my first exposure to the technopop music and many of the people in the audience were Germans… I had no idea that such music was even possible. The tour was to promote their albums Computerworld and Man Machine… They had two fellows that beat with “knitting needles” on touch sensitive drum machines while the other two played keyboard synthesizers… The drummers were wild because every time a knitting needle contacted the machine, a loud percussive sound happened… not drum sounds but more like boink or ping or even pffffbtt… When they performed their song “pocket calculator” they walked to the front of the stage and had members of the audience play the notes… The lyrics state ” by pushing down a special key it plays a little melody” blink bonk…. katrronk…. Quite an effective piece of showmanship and audience participation… Then at the end of the show , all the people left the stage and let the computers play the song… for about ten minutes… wild dancing to actual robot performers… I was amazed… Their website has a toy on it that lets you play a drum machine… boing, boom, tchack, peng, zonk… http://www.kraftwerk.com/
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Much of the time when I played with my friends in the basement in Manassas, Virginia we had a home made laser lightshow going… My friend built this using an extremely slowly rotating mirror that had a little “house” built on it out of transparent “walls” and clear glue… The “house” was about 3/4 of an inch tall and caused interference patterns to be displayed on the ceiling… these took the appearance of galaxies or clouds that slowly changed. The speed was about One RPM. He had guests come over and bring their instruments… A trumpet player from the Redskins Football Team band was a memorable evening. In general, we played music that you would hear as a soundtrack for a motion picture… Incidental music or abstract jazz or “outer space whoosh whoosh”…..
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We made a demo recording and had an agent in New York try to sell it to people making corporate videos… No sale, but it was fun trying… When we recorded the demo, I loaned a huge pile of my equipment to Leon and he set up a special studio in the basement of his grandpas home. His grandpa was a Retired General in the Army and had a mansion in McLean and another in Arizona. I never met the grandpa because were were not allowed to visit when he was in town nor were we allowed in many parts of the mansion due to breakable oriental antiques. These people live in a truly different world than us peasants.
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I really got into samplers when I got a midi controlled 4 second monophonic machine. It could be controlled by the drum machine. My favorite sound was a pan pipe. I set up the sound so that the sampler could play it back very slowly giving a low pitch. It sounded as if a giant was blowing on a pan pipe 20 feet tall… I made a tape and gave it to my friend “Major” Tom (a Bowie fan). He was very happy with it because when it was played on the car stereo, it put his children to sleep… Unfortunately, also on that tape were some Doppler effect noises and he panicked because he thought it was a police car siren. A moment of fear but it was quickly resolved by erasing that song from the tape…

Free Coloring Book Art. Find MORE at Google Image Search using the Words: "gvan42 Coloring Book" - Print as Many Copies as You Want and Share With Friends... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/04/peace-and-love-free-coloring-book-art.html <--- Click Here

That Creepy Masonic Eye from the Back of the Dollar Bill - and Pink Floyd's Wall - Dark Side of the Moon Prism
Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42

Here is a Video of a Guided Meditation 

Healing Ceremony Lead by 

Sonya Sophia at a Rainbow Gathering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2r0I8VoxJY

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